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30-35 cm. longos dispositis; pedicellis +1 cm. longis; alabastris 
globosis ; calyce cupuliformi, calycis tubo turbinato ; petalis 30- 
35 mm. longis imbricatis calyce 2-3-plo longioribus; staminibus 
numerosissimis multiseriatis, antheris parvis ; stylo longiusculo tenui; 
ovario 4-loculari. 
Koikoko Range, 2800 ft., 803. 
Large tree ; flowers white ; leaves oblong-ovate, petiolate ; racemes 
30-35 cm. long, laxly flowered; pedicels ±1 cm. long. 
B. flava Laut. differs in its sessile flowers, and B. tetraptera 
Laut. in its two-celled ovary. 
Melastomaceye. 
Melastoma malabathricum L. Sogere, 217, 825. 
Dissocheeta liovoguineensis Bak. fib, sp. n. (§ Diplostemones ). 
Frutex scandens ramis junioribus teretibus fusco-furfuraceis ; foliis 
ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis subcoriaceis breviter petiolatis 5-pli- 
nerviis supra nitentibus apice obtusis basi rotundatis, costa subtus 
primum fusco-furfuracea, lamina 5—5*7 cm. longa, 2*8-4*6 cm. lata, 
petiolo fusco-furfuraceo 10-12 mm. longo ; floribus in paniculam 
terminalem amplam dispositis ; bracteis mediocribus 3-4 mm. longis ; 
cah/ce in toto 4 min. longo tubo primum furfuraceo limbo truncato 
lobis subnudis ; petalis 4 in alabastris ±4 mm. longis primum viridi- 
albis (sec. cl. detector.) ovatis apice acutis ; staminibus 8 in speci- 
minibus nostris vix evolutis ; baccis subglobosis 5 mm. longis, limbo 
calycis coronatis. 
Sogere, Mt. Wori-wori at about 5000 ft., 708, 809. 
Medinilla triplinervia Cogn. Sogere, 932, 654. 
M. macrocarpa Bl. Sogere, Meroka, 479. Koikoko Range, 
2500 ft., 786. Large shrub ; fruit scarlet-purple. Sogere, 940, 423, 
303. Trailing shrub ; flowers rich rose-pink. 
M. Forbesii Bak. fil. in Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot. ser. 2, ix. 55. 
Meroka Range, 2500 ft., 895. Climber; flowers pink-scarlet. Mt. 
Wori-wori, 5000 ft., 757. Small tree or trailing shrub ; flowers rose- 
pink ; stamens pale yellow. 
M. sogerensis Bak. fil. op. cit. 56. Sogere, 3000 ft., 305. Large 
straggling shrub; flowers rose-pink or reddish purple ; calyces per¬ 
sistent ; fruit nervature covered with white silvery hairs. Mt. Koikoko, 
3000 ft., 596. 
Astronia arborea Bak. fil., sp. n. Arbor alta (sec. cl. detector.) 
ad A. ferrugineam Elmer valde accedens ; ramis teretibus cortice 
griseo tectis ; foliis majusculis 13—16 cm. long. 3*5—6*5 cm. lat. 
ellipticis vel oblongo-oblanceolatis 3-nerviis manifesto discoloribus 
supra nitentibus subtus insign iter rubro-brunneo-pubescentibus apice 
subacutis basi cuneatis petiolo mediocri 1-3 cm. long ; prseditis; 
floribus in paniculas mediocres dispositis; bracteis parviusculis vel 
mediocribus dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; calycis tubo ±5 mm. 
long, campanulato extus dense ferrugineo-pubescente dentibus ±1 mm. 
long. ; petalis 5 suborbiculari-obovatis in speeiminibus nostris vix 
evolutis; fructu subgloboso. 
Koikoko Range, 806. A tall tree ; leaves shining above, covered 
below with a reddish-brown pubescence ; flowers (in our specimen 
